What saddens or worries you about the future?

Are you worried about your future, personally or about your country? Perhaps the condition or planet is in, takes away your sleep?

The short answer is, yes, I’m worried about the future – mine and the world’s.

First of all, climate change. I wonder who’s not aware of this? Oh wait, I know who. The family. I don’t think there’s any denying that it’s happening no matter where you are in the world. Though I’m not losing sleep over it, it is quite saddening that we, humans, are not doing more about it.

Oh wait, it’s because of politics, isn’t it?

It’s always about politics – old men and women who can’t agree on anything or cooperate to solve problems. Do you ever get the feeling that the world is riddled with problems right now and the future is feeling so uncertain that it’s scary sometimes? I mean, between the conflicting bias-laden news stories and other things, who knows who’s telling the truth about the state of the world at this moment?

I’m worried about my personal future as well because I have invested much of my savings into my retirement and investment accounts to make sure I have a comfortable retirement. Part of me has always worried what if I lost it all one day? What if all that I’ve invested suddenly worth nothing?

My mom’s family has always laughed at the fact that I have this habit of dumping almost the entire amount of my checking account into my savings account at the end of each month and that I’m frugal. “Just spend the money,” my aunt often said, which frustrates me.

No one was here when I was living on my savings in 2018 before I got my current job. No one saw the state I was in and what I went through. I was using my savings for everything – food, mortgage, bills – while my mom would come home each night screaming why I hadn’t found a job yet. I never want to go back to that time. So I’ve become very careful about where I put my money but then again, there’s the worry – what if it suddenly goes from worthing something to nothing?

So, yes, I’m worried, wouldn’t you?

#SundayPoser